Biography:

  • 20 years’ “Big Four” stamp duty experience, including building and running KPMG’s UK stamp duty team for five years
  • Chair of the professional body for stamp duty advisers, the Stamp Taxes Practitioners Group (over 200 members)
  • Editor and author of Sergeant and Sims on Stamp Taxes since 2008
  • Former Tax Writer of the Year
  • Author of the Law Society’s SDLT Handbook: A Guide for Residential Conveyancers
  • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation
  • Barrister (non-practising)
  • Listed in Spear’s 500